The purpose is to make India's administration/courts, and hence economy, at par with West. How? By improving record keeping in GoI-offices and reducing nexuses in GoI-offices and courts. How? We would need several laws.
LM.02 is the SECOND of these proposed laws. This law will not only improve law-making at Assembly, but would also bootstrap a process that would result into passing 10s of good laws.
The purpose of this letter is to make aware the MLA, that he should pass the Resolution #LM.02 namely "Direct Vote in the State Assembly" to create an administrative procedure that would enable citizens to reguster their YES/NO DIRECTLY in the State Assembly on a specific bill.
If you agree with this notion, that the citizens must have procedure to bypass the MLAs, I request you to print the below mentioned letter, and mail copies to your MLA.
I request you to pass a Resolution in the Assembly which will create following procedure in the state administration:
To administer this procedure, the CM will appoint an officer titled Registrar per District. Or, an officer such as District Collector may serve as the Registrar.
Any citizen can present a bill to the Speaker of the Assembly by paying a fee of Rs 20,000/-.
Within next 90 days, any citizen can approve/disapprove the bill by visiting the Registrar’s office, showing his ID, providing the proposal's (bill's) serial number, paying Rs 2 to Rs 5 fee and obtain a receipt showing his approval/disapproval.
An MLA can register his YES/NO on that bill before the Speaker within next 30 days. And if an MLA does not register his vote, it will be considered as a NO.
The MLA’s vote will count ONLY for those citizens who have not registered their YES/NO on that bill.
The Speaker will add YES-fractions and the NO-fractions of each of the constituencies on 91st day. If sum of YES-fractions exceeds the sum of NO-fraction, the Speaker would declare the draft as passed.
Example : Consider an Assembly Constituency with say 100,000 voters. Suppose 40,000 (40%) citizens visit Registrar’s office and file YES and 15,000 (15%) register NO. And 45,000 (45%) don’t act. So 55% citizens have filed YES or NO on that bill. So that Assembly’s MLA's vote will only have (100% - 55% = 45%) weight. If the MLA votes YES, the Speaker will take 85% YES and 15% NO from that constituency and if the MLA votes NO 9or doesnot register his vote), the Speaker will take 40% YES and 60% NO from that constituency.
Once again, I request you to pass such a Resolution as soon as possible.
Note to the reader : Optionally, you may ALSO take a print out of the draft of the Act to enact Direct Vote, and snail mail it to your MLA. For the draft, please click here.
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